Nothing Gold Can Stay / by Robert Frost / Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf's a flower; / But only so an hour. / Then leaf subsides to leaf. / So Eden sank to grief, / So dawn goes down to day. / Nothing gold can stay. / 从无什么至宝可以留存 / 大自然的初绿好比黄金， / 她这一抹色彩最易消泯。 / 她的头枚绿叶好比花朵， / 却..

Kneeling / by R. S. Thomas / Moments of great calm, / Kneeling before an altar / Of wood in a stone church / In summer, waiting for the God / To speak; the air a staircase / For silence; the sun’s light / Ringing me, as though I acted / A great rôle. And the audiences / Still; all that close throng / Of spirits waiting, as I, / For the message. / ...

A Second Childhood / by Gilbert Keith Chesterton / When all my days are ending / And I have no song to sing, / I think I shall not be too old / To stare at everything; / As I stared once at a nursery door / Or a tall tree and a swing. / Wherein God’s ponderous mercy hangs / On all my sins and me, / Because He does not take away / The terror from the tree / And st...

Jesus of the Scars / by Edward Shillito / If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; / Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; / We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow, / We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars. / The heavens frighten us; they are too calm; / In all the universe we have no place. / Our wounds are hurting us; where is the balm...

Up-Hill / by Christina Rossetti / Does the road wind up hill all the way? / Yes, to the very end. / Will the day's journey take the whole long day? / From morn to night, my friend. / But is there for the night a resting-place? / A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. / May not the darkness hide it from my face? / You cannot miss that inn. / Shall I meet o...

Spirit's House / by Sara Trevor Teasdale / From naked stones of agony / I will build a house for me; / As a mason all alone / I will raise it, stone by stone, / And every stone where I have bled / Will show a sign of dusky red. / I have not gone the way in vain, / For I have good of all my pain; / My spirit's quiet house will be / Built of naked stones I trod / On r...

The Battle Field / by Emily Dickinson / They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, / Like petals from a rose, / When suddenly across the June / A wind with fingers goes. / They perished in the seamless grass, -- / No eye could find the place; / But God on his repealless list / Can summon every face. / 战场 / 他们倒下，像雪片；他们倒下，像流星， / ..

Everyone Sang / by Siegfried Sassoon / Everyone suddenly burst out singing; / And I was filled with such delight / As prisoned birds must find in freedom, / Winging wildly across the white / Orchards and dark-green fields; on--on--and out of sight. / Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted; / And beauty came like the setting sun: / My heart was shaken with tears; ...

I cannot open mine eyes, / But thou art ready there to catch / My morning-soul and sacrifice: / Then we must needs for that day make a match. / My God, what is a heart? / Silver, or gold, or precious stone, / Or star, or rainbow, or a part / Of all these things or all of them in one? / My God, what is a heart? / That thou should'st it so eye, and woo, / Pouring up...

The Call / Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: / Such a Way, as gives us breath; / Such a Truth, as ends all strife, / And such a Life, as killeth death. / Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength: / Such a Light, as shows a feast; / Such a Feast, as mends in length, / Such a Strength, as makes his guest. / Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart: / Such a Joy, as none can mo...

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, / Guilty of dust and sin. / But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack / From my first entrance in, / Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning / If I lack'd anything. / "A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here"; / Love said, "You shall be he." / "I, the...